skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can click on the timestamp to go to the comment's page, where the text will be readable. It's an annoying extra step, but not as annoying as downgrading the immune system would be, assuming you find fatal illness annoying. Most (<-- notice I said "most") downvoted comments have been downvoted for good reason. Letting the median downvoted comment have the run of this place would kill it.
Because you want to replace it with the 996 (9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week) grind? Because that's what a startup is, with no guarantee that it's ever going to drop back down to merely 40 hours a week.

Anyway, if that's what you want... the secret is to know your customer, which usually means knowing yourself. Find some domain that interests you, something you're already doing, and say, "Hey, I could automate that." It's easiest to see that something is slightly uncomfortable when you're the one being slightly uncomfortable.

You relieve that discomfort, and then you look for other people who are similarly uncomfortable. And convince them to pay for it, either in money or in attention. "Free with ads" is very low friction and helps you find those people.

This is the reason I encourage programmers to have interests outside of programming. Nobody wants to pay you to program. They want to pay you to make their lives better. That's easiest if you know their lives. Any outside interest -- ballet dancing, glassblowing, small engine repair -- puts you in touch with other people who might have needs that can only be recognized by other practitioners.

That you don't have any interests -- honestly, that sounds like a question for a therapist, not HN. You're doing something with those 8 hours you're spending neither working nor sleeping. If they're spent staring at a wall, or even a TV or a monitor, it might be worth taking a look at just what it is you want out of life.
> Unfortunately this occasionally has the effect of making some plaintiffs a LPPF

I wouldn't call it unfortunate. If you don't want to be a public figure, one thing of which to steer clear is certainly the business of operating voting systems in the US presidential election. This is clearly public interest.
Seroprevalence studies have been conducted all over the world. For example in Delhi India approximately 50-60% of the population now have antibodies for SARS-CoV-2. There are statistical techniques for adjusting the raw results based on population demographics.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-may-be-head...

Note that seroprevalence studies will underestimate the number of infections because some recovered patients don't produce detectible levels of antibodies.
Let's hope it doesn't pan out like it did for Nathan R. Johnson...

http://whywouldanyonebuythat.blogspot.com/2010/02/opti-grab-....

Clip from Steve Martin's "The Jerk"
https://youtu.be/i5jTH89HjTA
i think that's reductive and while it feels true, it probably isn't. it's the same logic with which i can say HN is a bunch of mostly male programmers who take themselves too seriously, think they are much smarter than everyone and probably mostly all share the same personality traits

it's not quite true, and reducing a whole lot of people into one easy bucket dumbs all of the conversations down. IMO wsb is pretty riveting, and i would love to hear more nuanced takes on the sociology/mindset behind these types of communities, especially the legality when it comes to the market and what the future holds. at what point will WSB become illegal in the way that it moves stocks around? etc.
1. Check a review, no .. why not check a few.

2. Look at the main disadvantages listed.

3. Notice lack of ports is mentioned as a major one.

--

Then .. as a thought experiment, consider the article we're commenting on.

It's describing the fact that there are only 2 ports, and commenting that it isn't actually a bad thing .. it's spun positively, because there's bandwidth to support four devices.

Can you imagine any other manufacturer getting away with this?

A professional user _will_ need more than two ports. Apple know this, and you're still writing an apologia for them.

Crazy.
> he only got freed from jail because of a new legal ruling that said that you can't be jailed until all appeals have been heard

Actually Lula deliberately chose to stay imprisoned: https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/lula-nao-quer-cumprir-pen...
Masseter muscle botox gets surprisingly little attention for this and derivative issues. Not too expensive. Very simple walk-in procedure, don't need consults. Zero effort. Not permanent (both a con and a pro), but some say their problem doesn't come back even after it wears off.

Pretty much all other interventions (besides self-awareness/lifestyle) are way more involved and don't have a great record either way. Nothing is proven about botox either, but seems like the best thing to try first.
People who liked this article might find Scott Adams vocal issues interesting (for a long time he couldn't speak in a normal tone in conversations but in other contexts like singing or public speaking he could).

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/16360/scott-adams-and-sp...
People who have the hobby of photography, might have some intuitive understanding of this brightness difference. If you are shooting with fixed aperture and ISO, your exposure times could easily go from 1/60 indoors to 1/3000 outdoors which is not quite a 100X difference, but close.
WSB on reddit is pumping it now too. Makes sense.
I live in the dark North and have always been fond of screens. Being outdoorsy is a much later-acquired taste. My vision at soon 30 is still 20/20.

Probability is a strange beast.
I use lineageos (pure foss fork of android, with the exception of firmware) without installing google play services. It works pretty well!
Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding
The category of 'appointment' contains many different methods, some of which may be better than the US system.

One method that I've heard of is to have a committee (/"commission"/"council") select judges. The committee composition can draw from multiple branches of government (e.g. some members are existing judges and others are appointed/elected by the executive and/or legislative branches) and from civil society (e.g. appointed/elected by bar associations; in some implementations a majority of the committee is from civil society). The terms of members of the committee can be staggered.

The idea is to make it difficult for any one controversial person or party or movement to consistently dominate the committee, because in order to do so they would need to consistently dominate multiple branches of government and civil society (because the different members of the committee are selected by these different institutions) over a long period of time (because of the staggered terms).
Low latency time source for stuff like Spanner that appreciates times that are the same across disparate data centers?
And then again, Battlestar Galactica is far better than what you see in Star Wars.
Crypto News – The Urban Mine
Nikola Tesla's Autobiography [pdf]
It's notable that when it comes to content moderation, most people are positive that the execs at Twitter are morons for not addressing issues sufficiently, but few people can articulate a clear solution to the problem.

I too have concerns about how this will play out, but we should be open minded about different solutions to an important challenge.
Is it just me, or does a name like "Dominion" in the context of voting just beg for conspiracy theories? The name seems _so_ anti-democratic.
This seems like it would be very vulnerable to people supporting a viewpoint (whether true or not) brigading the heck out of posts about the other viewpoint.
The latest Garmin wearable devices support the ANT+ FE-C profile so if you implement that then it should just work. There's no need to specifically integrate with their closed ecosystem.
> they would have to do literal translation based on phonetics.

That seems pretty unlikely to have happened here; I don't know the Russian word in question, but the Chinese "hui" rhymes with English "clay". (It also rhymes with the more sensibly spelled Chinese "wei"; the 'e' is only omitted when the syllable begins with a consonant. Compare "feng shui".) I'd be surprised if that were a possible reading of any Russian that might be transliterated "hui".
This seems overly ambitious, and not likely to translate to laser satellite comms links. Remember these sats are in low LEO, so there is at least some amount of non-uniform atmospheric medium to create optical distortion that you wouldn't have in a tightly controlled environment from your link (chip, datacenter, what have you).

Then there's the issue of signal attenuation at distances like these, along with the power budget from the solar panels to ensure that you aren't burning all your power just on laser comms.

I can't imagine these links would be anything more than 1:1 at any given time, at least not at first. Maybe later they might be able to handle simultaneous laser links from 1:3 or something like it, but I highly doubt that's their current capability.

Even some of the best latest ground-to-sat laser comms links are on the order of ~7 gigabits per second. [1] I imagine those are far larger sats than Starlink, and their entire power and thermal budget is likely spent on comms. And the ground stations can be orders of magnitude larger and power hungry in relation to a Starlink sat. Note also that this is from GEO, so you aren't likely having to handle substantial relative movement either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_communication_in_space#2...
Binoculars are a great way to get familiar with finding things in the night sky. I have Nikon Action Extreme 10x50 binoculars, and I couldn't be happier with them. You will have no trouble seeing the Messier objects with them. A good place to start would be with the ones that are visible to the naked eye, such as the Orion nebula (M41), the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), or the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (M13). The Orion nebula is prominent in the eastern sky early in the evenings right now.
> Has there been any investigation of similarities between west coast indigenous languages and Asian languages, esp. Japanese?

Yes, plenty, and no similarities have been found in reputable scholarship. (Note that when Gavin Menzies, the crackpot historian whose claim is that the Chinese explored the whole world pre-Columbus, stated that West Coast indigenous languages bear a resemblance to Chinese, he had to base himself on 19th-century conjectures that were pre-scientific and now totally discredited. Nancy Yaw Davis’s theory that the Zuni people of North America are related to the Japanese, is also not taken seriously by any historical linguist).

The Japanese language itself only entered Japan in the last centuries BC/first centuries AD. Japanese is originally from the Asian continent and displaced whatever languages were spoken on the Japanese isles before. So, that’s only a few centuries when Japanese speakers could have somehow come into contact with Native Americans, and there doesn’t seem to be any firm evidence for it.
A very similar process in Tennessee. I'm not sure if the machine was made by Dominion, but I had a chance to review the printout before scanning. The printout appeared to pass through the scanner and into a locked container beneath, presumably for actual paper audits.
People keep mixing up “absence of evidence” and “evidence of absence” with this tweet.

There is no reason to believe the WHO was in possession of secret evidence of human-to-human transmission on that date, and they noted that it was entirely possible said evidence would emerge soon. It did shortly afterwards.
> Chomsky has explained that the counter-culture of the 60’s was viewed as the “crisis of democracy” by the Trilateral Commission. An excess of democracy: special interests like women, the elderly, environmentalists, ethnic minorities, and so on were trying to enter the public arena. In short: the general population.

The problem is with the rhetoric. You don't need to daemonize the system to reform it. For example, AFAIU the Women's Suffrage movement didn't take that course. Nor did the early mid-century Civil Rights movement. Later in the century (e.g. with the Vietnam War protests) radical Leftist academic discourse went mainstream. Conservative academics and pundits started adopting similar rhetoric not long after (consider Reagan's anti-government slogan), which really went mainstream in the 1980s and, especially, the 1990s with Gingrich's Republican Revolution campaigning strategies.

The rhetoric has essentially become nihilistic. People like Chomsky are as much to blame as anyone else. But you don't become someone as famous as Chomsky without radical, absolutist rhetoric. In that sense academia in general is to blame. Though, there were other dynamics, e.g. opinion journalism, that brought the academic discourse into the popular discourse.
Eric Coomer (on many of Dominion's patents) mentions that there's a cellular modem in the machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2529&v=YLIS68YfMYU&feature=y...

So it's not just a LAN connection that would be isolated to the network in the voting place (what you'd expect).

They also reported sending out updates to the machines in some precincts after certification, just before the election: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/georgia-election-ma... (not sure of the current veracity of this but bookmarked it as it was interesting).
Google will turn some of its offices into Covid-19 vaccination sites
> ... letting an user deny the password change with the old password is pretty horrible in case the password was leaked.

That's a different threat: an attacker knowing your password. Well... How do websites that allow instant credentials resets by email typically deal with a password reset asked by someone who knows the current password? Instant change too ("enter your current password / enter your new password twice"). And the good guy is locked out of his own account. I don't see how it's worse than that.
Consequently, he said, I had done what many people with my injury do: I had developed strategies for, as he put it, “speaking around the problem” – retraining my recurrent laryngeal nerve (the nerve that, among other things, controls the tension on the vocal cords) to drop the pitch of my voice, slackening my freighted vocal membrane so that the 3 or 4% that was still pliable would vibrate. This reduced the rattle in my voice, but at a cost. It was robbing me of the natural variation in pitch and volume that people use to give colour, animation, expression and personality to their utterances – what linguists call prosody, the melody of everyday speech.

...

“You’re behaving through a veil of monotone,” he went on. “When you talk, you can’t express emotion properly. You can’t change pitch, can’t get loud, can’t do the normal things that a voice does to express how you feel.”

The first example that jumped to mind when I read this section was Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul).

Anyone know how accurate my armchair diagnosis is?
I get your point completely and I’m glad you shared it. When I was in University, I worked with ESL (English as a second language) students and they were always really happy to hear about idiomatic quirks like that. I should rethink how I approach this online. I don’t want to be patronizing because lots of non-native speakers have better written English than I do, but I’ll think about it and find a new line.
I'm interested in this topic... my list

- grinding teeth in sleep

- nightly/morningly sleep paralysis

- not being able to breath through nose

sleep is hard...
There's a distinction between defense and deterrence the former stops something that's been done, eg shooting down missiles and bombers, and the latter in the nuclear context is always maintaining the ability to strike back.

A pre-emptive strike isn't defense it's just starting the war and it also doesn't prevent you from being struck.

Unless you're in Cuba firing at the US or Europe aiming at Russia there's always time to launch a retaliatory strike before the first missiles hit and missile bases were designed to survive really close hits. That's part of why the US freaked out so much about missiles coming to Cuba and why Russia developed more mobile launch capability than the US. The only real 'defense' against and ICBM (at the time we're maybe figuring out real defenses now) was to be able to survive to strike back which isn't so much a defense as deterrent.
Yeah, I hear you. Technically, anyone can get one, though I believe it comes with some annoying tax obligations, so it's not really something one would do as a tourist.
You can also mix-and-match further, and add another layer of indirection.

One method that I've heard of is to have a committee (/"commission"/"council") select judges. The committee composition can draw from multiple branches of government (e.g. some members are existing judges and others are appointed/elected by the executive and/or legislative branches) and from civil society (e.g. appointed/elected by bar associations; in some implementations a majority of the committee is from civil society). The terms of members of the committee can be staggered.

The idea is to make it difficult for any one controversial person or party or movement to consistently dominate the committee, because in order to do so they would need to consistently dominate multiple branches of government and civil society (because the different members of the committee are selected by these different institutions) over a long period of time (because of the staggered terms).
definitely not taking any of your comments as 'being an asshole'. I genuinely appreciate the feedback and advice, and 100% agree with each of your points. I am the first to admit product /= business and project /= startup, but the terms do definitely get interchanged a lot now.

my comments above fail to clarify that 'hunkering down' is not the only aspect of building something successful, nor do i think the '12-, 24-' hour hack sessions (regardless of what you're building) are a good formula to success, i've been very guilty of putting in the work but not doing so smartly in the past. I guess i was just trying to nail home the fact that if you want to start something on the side it IS going to take extra work, and that might be uncomfortable in the beginning, but some work is necessary.

And i also definitely agree with the fact that many of my ideas don't lead to community, and agree that a vibrant community is a great means to success, most of these are 'scratch my own itch' type projects. But my primary point was , good or bad, ideas surround us daily.

Thanks for your advice and feedback. I genuinely appreciate it!
Is there any opportunities to get a mentor in your current workplace? Most of what you'll be able to learn is from books and the existing codebase but not all of it, there will be places where decisions were made that cut corners and for good reason - but only people who have worked on it will be able to tell you why and what you should take from it.
I think it's funny when people say this when there are still 11 months left in the year. Just because I made $300k on this doesn't mean I'll owe taxes on that
We all need to be making RONJA a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA
I learned so much from this article about how memory works when I was starting out, thanks phrack!
You can get a rubidium time standard in an IC package.[1] It's about 50mm square, comparable to a CPU chip. Talks USB. Error is under 100ns/day. Time servers should have one.

[1] https://www.mouser.com/new/microchip/microchip-macsa5x-atomi...
Tracking and authentication aren't quite the same, but they aren't independent either. If you are logged in all the time (like many of us are for Hacker News), then your actions can be tracked pretty well.

That's kind of the point of being logged in, to let the website know who you are.
This is just your own sample not representative of the overall picture (not claiming that mine is representative either). Out of my group of friends that I talk to almost every day and bet on "meme positions" (all fairly similar to each other in terms of which positions we pick), it is all over the place.

Just for this year alone:

One person in a significant negative this year.

One with a small negative.

One with 45%+.

One with 77%+.

One with 110%+.

One with 247%+.

It is less about which specific "meme positions" you enter, but when you enter them and when you exit them. As well as predicting certain "meme positions" before they show up on WSB, but that one had a very small effect on our portfolios, given it is something really difficult to predict correctly. And mine you, none of us went full yolo wsb-style. None of us bet our life savings, we were just betting fairly consistently and on a lot of different things. And even the highest gainers never went full yolo and dropped more than 5-7% of their portfolio on their biggest bets
The electronic voting machines I use in Southern California actually print my selections on a piece of paper that I can look at under a little piece of plastic. I approve that it shows my votes accurately and then the paper slides away. Presumably kept with the machine so an audit could be done.
The common C/C++ subset is an outdated and non-standard C though. For instance standard-conforming C++ compilers cannot compile C99 code and onward, they're stuck at a non-standard C version that would roughly be C95, minus some things that are valid C but not valid C++.
There's another active thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25906672. Not sure if we should merge them or what.
Writing a lisp interpreter in J won't really do more to help explore J's syntax than writing anything else in J. It might be a good way to explore how J handles tree-like data, but that's not really something J is designed to do well (if you really want to use an array-oriented language for tree processing, Aaron Hsu's dissertation covers a range of techniques that are more scalable than the naïve nest-of-short-boxed-vectors approach typically used in J).
There's another active thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25908439. Not sure whether to merge them.
I tip $4. the deliver fee is $4 and I pay $10/month for that rate. And a burrito still ends up costing $18.95
In Ohio, we used the same Dominion voting systems with the same process:

Poll worker validates proper ID, get ballot code for your precinct, walk to voting system, poll worker enters the precinct, voter validates info on screen, voter votes on the touch screen, system prints out choices, walk to scanner system, vote gets scanned, scanner stores those ballots in it's tray in case need for audit.
The most significant cases were dismissed on procedural issues without reaching the merits. That doesn't necessarily mean they had merit, but arbitrarily many procedural dismissals don't show that one way or the other.

I feel like this is the problem with the discourse right now. It's understandable why you're making that argument, because the media has been saying that for months now. Because in fact a large number of cases were dismissed (so it's not technically a lie), but it's only rhetorically effective if you don't look at the details.

So then we end up with this massive polarization because one side keeps relying on an argument that sounds very convincing to their base who never hear the counterargument, but will never convince the other side who have, and then there is never reconciliation. Or even a motive to find more convincing arguments that there wasn't fraud, because they're only talking to their base and not even trying to convince the other side.